Nicolas Cage says his Superman appearance in ‘The Flash’ was different from what he filmed: ‘I didn’t do it’

Nicolas Cage talks about his cameo appearance The Lightning where he was seen in Superman’s costume.

As you may recall, Cage auditioned for the role of Man of Steel for a feature film to be directed by Tim Burton, but was ultimately turned down. Of The Lightning Since it’s about the multiverse, Cage does wear the red cape and blue suit in an alternate timeline, but he said that what he filmed was not what appeared on screen.

“When I wanted to take the picture, I fought a giant spider. I did not do it. I didn’t do it,” he said Yahoo! Entertainment in an interview. ‘I do not believe it [created by] AI. I know Tim is just as angry about AI as I am. It was CGI, okay, so they could age me and I was fighting a spider. I didn’t do any of that, so I don’t know what happened there. …But I understand where Tim is coming from. I know what he means. I would be very unhappy if people took my art… and appropriated it. I understand. I mean, I agree with him. AI is a nightmare for me. It’s inhumane. It doesn’t get any more inhuman than artificial intelligence.”

He continued: ‘But I don’t think so [was] AI [in The Flash]. I just think they did something with it, and again, I have no control over it. I literally shot a scene in a suit for maybe an hour, watching the destruction of a universe and trying to convey the feelings of loss, sadness and fear in my eyes. That’s all I did.”

Cage said he was on the set of the Andrés Muschietti film in which Ezra Miller gave props to the director.

“They spent a lot of time building the suit… and I think so [Andy] is a great director, he’s a great guy and a great director, and I loved his two It movies,” he said. “What I had to do was literally stand in another dimension and witness the destruction of the universe. Kal-El was a witness [to] the end of a universe, and you can imagine in the short time I had what that would mean for what I can convey. I had no dialogue [so had to] Convey the emotions with my eyes. So that’s what I did. I was on set for maybe three hours.”